Bill Text: MI HB4026 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Labor; fair employment practices; use of e-verification system by employment agencies; require. Amends sec. 1019 of 1980 PA 299 (MCL 339.1019).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-11-27 - Motion To Discharge Committee Postponed For Day [HB4026 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-HB4026-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4026

 

January 13, 2011, Introduced by Reps. Agema, Yonker, Hooker, Damrow, MacMaster, Callton, Knollenberg, Johnson, Daley and LaFontaine and referred to the Committee on Commerce.

 

     A bill to amend 1980 PA 299, entitled

 

"Occupational code,"

 

by amending section 1019 (MCL 339.1019), as amended by 1992 PA 253.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1019. A personnel agency, or any licensed agent or other

 

agent or employee of a personnel agency shall not do any of the

 

following:

 

     (a) Use any name other than the name in which the personnel

 

agency is licensed.

 

     (b) Bring or maintain an action in a court of this state for

 

the collection of compensation for the performance of an act or

 

contract for services as a personnel agency without alleging and

 

proving that the agency and its agent were licensed under this

 

article during the performance of the act or contract.

 

     (c) Use a form which that contains provisions in violation of

 

this article, rules promulgated under this article, or other state

 

or federal laws or regulations.

 

     (d) Share a fee with any other person, except a personnel

 

agency licensed in this state or in any other state requiring

 

licenses for personnel agencies or a personnel agency in a state in

 

which licensure is not required.

 

     (e) Persuade, induce, or solicit an employer to discharge an

 

employee.

 

     (f) Request or accept a registration fee or any other fee not

 

set forth in the agency's contract with a client or charge a fee

 

higher than the fee set forth in the contract.

 

     (g) Request or accept, or give, offer, or promise to give, a

 

gift of such value that the gift is likely to persuade, induce, or

 

influence an action of an employer or benefit the personnel agency

 

or any of its agents or employees.

 

     (h) Knowingly procure, entice, send, or aid in procuring,

 

enticing, or sending a person to perform an illegal act.

 

     (i) Prevent an employee of the department from inspecting the

 

records of the agency at any time during normal business hours.

 

     (j) Refer an individual for employment without having verified

 

through the e-verify system or a successor system authorized by the

 

United States immigration and naturalization service that the

 

individual is authorized to work in the United States.